About the guest
Mehrdad Samavati is an air quality engineer with an Industrial Engineering background and experienced in production, and business development. He specialises in air quality modelling, measurement techniques, indoor air quality, and clean air solutions. He is currently a Clean Air and Filtration Solutions Expert Providing industrial air filtration solutions to different industries through analysing the process and designing suited filtration systems.
The topic of discussion:
Synergies and trade-offs between air quality and climate change
COP26 just concluded and the question that remains to be explored from an air quality perspective is, are there synergies and trade-offs between air quality and climate change? Reducing fossil fuel combustion in industry, transport, mining, agriculture and heating, would not only reduce CO2 emissions but also directly reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx), black carbon, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and carbon monoxide (CO) with a resultant positive impact on human and ecosystem health and productivity. The linkages between air pollution and climate change call for:
-air quality management
-climate change mitigation
-increased real-time air monitoring
-catalyzing clean air efforts globally
-stringent policy and consistent policing
-integrated and collaborative approaches
-action-consequence approach to compliance
In this article, Global Road Technology is in conversation with Mehrdad Samavati, an Air Quality Engineer based in Turkey, about synergies and trade-offs between air quality and climate change.
